- Title
- Beyond benefit sharing: Place attachment and the importance of access to protected areas for surrounding communities
- Creator
- Cundill, Georgina, Bezerra, Joana C, de Vos, Alta, Ntingana, Nokuthula
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/416265
- Identifier
- vital:71334
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2017.03.011"
- Description
- The concept of place attachment can assist to integrate relational values into ecosystem service research, and assist us to rethink the notion of benefits in contemporary protected area thinking. We present a case study from South Africa, where the concept of two-dimensional place attachment was used to understand the relationship between a protected area and a land claimant community that now owns part of this protected area but does not have physical access to the land. A place attachment lens helps refocus access to protected areas as cornerstone to long term sustainability of such areas. Such access must be considered in the context of spatially and economically differentiated users, including a focus on trade-offs between such users. Our findings highlight that when communities previously displaced from protected areas respond to offers of ‘benefit sharing’ with demands for access and recognition as land owners, they are asking for a recognition of relational values, and identity, based on close interaction with nature. A place attachment and relational values perspective raises questions about the extent to which traditional conservation practice can accommodate such values, and therefore meet local people’s expectations and remain viable in the long term.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (9 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Ecosystem Services, Cundill, G., Bezerra, J.C., De Vos, A. and Ntingana, N., 2017. Beyond benefit sharing: Place attachment and the importance of access to protected areas for surrounding communities. Ecosystem Services, 28, pp.140-148, Ecosystem Services volume 28 p. 140 2017 2212-0416
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RU Community Engagement Division
Cundill, Georgina (Dr)
de Vos, Alta (Dr)
Bezerra, Joana Carlos (Dr)
RU DST/NRF SARChI for Interdisciplinary Science in Land and Natural Resource Use for Sustainable Livelihoods
RU Department of Environmental Science
SDG 17. Partnerships for the Goals
SDG 15. Life On Land
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